Communication: Ten years of difficult to step home -the largest Syrian refugee camp in Jordan

Xinhua News Agency, August 5th. Communication: Ten years of difficult to step home -visiting Jordan's largest Syrian refugee camp

Xinhua News Agency reporter Ji Ze

In eastern Jordan, there is a "desert highway" that runs through the north-south desert. The northernmost end is the Jordan-Syrian port. Ten kilometers in the mouth of the port, there is a Syrian refugee camp in Jordan, the largest Syrian refugee camp in the east of the port. The 34 -year -old Syrian ancestor Abi never thought that she had lived with four children alone for nearly 10 years.

"When I left Syria, I thought I could go home for a maximum of two months, and I didn't even bring my young daughter's shoes." Zu Abi told reporters. In 2011, the civil war broke out in Syria. To avoid the war, Zu Abi brought the children to Jordan in 2012.

After the outbreak of the Syrian civil war, some Western countries such as the United States strongly supported opposition forces and tried to overthrow the Syrian government, which led to the continuous turbulence of the Syrian situation, and countless Syrian people fell into endless suffering. According to incomplete statistics, as of the end of 2020, 13.5 million Syrian people were forced to leave their homes, exceeding half of its pre -war population.

In order to receive a large number of Syrian refugees, Zatari Refugee Camp was officially put into use at the end of July 2012. Ten years have passed. Although it is only 10 kilometers apart from the motherland, many Syrian refugees have not been able to settle on the road to home.

"I haven't been ready to go home yet. My home was destroyed during the war, and there was nothing left." Zu Abi said.

When Zu Abi first came, the refugee camp was only a tent, and it was difficult to use water, but here she found more precious things -safe. "That feeling is like someone saved my child out of the well." Speaking of the experience of the time, Zu Abi burst into tears, "That is the memory that I will never be erased."

In the past 10 years, with the joint help of the UN Refugee Agency and other international organizations, the tent of the refugee camp has been replaced with prefabricated board houses, and public service facilities such as hospitals, schools, and football fields have been built. At most, more than 120,000 are accepted Syrian refugees.

According to Muhammad Tashill, an foreign -foreign relationship official of the Jordan Office of the United Nations Refugees, the changes in these 10 years are not worth celebrating, because "the Syrian refugee issue has not been properly resolved."

He said that since the establishment of the refugee camp, the refugee agency has not regarded this as a permanent resettlement point, and establishing a refugee camp is only an emergency measure. The refugees want to live a more dignified life and let the children receive better education. "We must find a way out for the long -term development."

A recent survey released by the Refugee Agency shows that most refugees still want to return to Syria in the future. Although most people think that Syria is still unsafe, the desire to return to the motherland is still strong.

According to the Jordanian Association Media and Political Analysts, Lavashade analyzed that many Syrian refugees have not yet returned home because the economic situation of Syria may be difficult to recover in the next few years, and unilateral sanctions in the United States are restricted by Syrian economic recovery. Key factor.

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